it's not because trump -- not astonished trump would attempt to profit off of the presidency. we've seen lots of that. but the fact that the military is being enlisted in doing it. >> yes and that the military is apparently not peeping and helping as congress is trying to do oversight on this. i feel like the astonishment thing is almost clinical. let's try not releasing tax returns. you know? let's see. okay. i'm getting away with that. let's try not setting up a blind trust. okay. let's try not divesting at all. okay. let's try hosting official government events and world leaders at some of my properties. >> right. >> okay. i'm getting away with all of this. okay. finally like, no, mike if you're going to ireland you're staying 180 miles from where your meetings are so i can get paid. we'll put the g7 at doral and military transport flights have to stop at the little commercial airport next to my golf course to spend their refueling dollars there at top dollar, a premium to refuel at a commercial airport, but that might keep that airport alive which is good for my bottom lin

donald trump might never give another state of union address because in january, donald trump is now tonight more likely by that time to be in the middle of a trial in the united states senate. and the speaker of the house is not going to invite an impeached president to deliver a state of the union address in the house of representatives in the middle of his impeachment trial in the senate. donald trump is going to be impeached by the house of representatives on at least one article of impeachment because, as of tonight, everything in the whistle-blower's report has so far proved to be true and more is proving to be true each day, including the most damning aspects of that whistle-blower's report. but the smoking gun evidence that will force the impeachment of donald trump are the words that donald trump spoke in the white house record of his conversation with the president of ukraine and nothing is going to change those words, nothing is going to make those words any better. and so for the majority of the members of the house of representatives who have said those words are worthy

president trump is president trump and even before he was a president, he was trump. you knew this, so there is nothing new about him. he is who he is. you had to change his platform when he became president because that is what he is now. everyone should be happy for that because he is the only one. i don't know exactly that i would argue with except for changing his platform. maybe that is a political reference which, i would not necessarily comment on, but i actually think the thing that is striking since he became president is that there was this theme that, the presidency changes everyone. he will become more quote unquote presidential, he will reach out to more of america because that is what you do. the institution of the office has the effect on everyone and it is greater than any individual person. instead, he has continued to be in the way he deals with media, in the way he watches in response to television and tweets about it, the same way but much, much more. the influence of the institution of television on him has been far greater than the institution of

trump park? >> trump park. >> it's actually pretty nice looking. this is the crown jewel of the donald trump empire. >> this is where he made his mark. >> trump tower is the home base for donald trump and his sprawling real estate portfolio. this iconic building has served both as the setting of his popular reality show that aired on nbc, "the apprentice" -- >> you're fired. >> i am officially running -- >> and as the launch pad for the most inprobable presidential campaign to ever succeed. i mean, it does make you feel something when you drive by. look at all the different windows. who's paying what money to where inside that building? this is trump international? >> yep, hotel and tower. so there are apartments here. but it is also a hotel. >> i've never heard of one person that stayed in that hotel. >> saudis have stayed there. and not just any saudis. according to a letter obtained by nbc news, officials traveling with crown prince mohammad bin salman stayed at the trump international for fiv

and today donald trump is still at it. his alabama tweet count today stands at four but those numbers are expected to right as donald trump surveys the damage to his reputation, which now includes sharing a false weather forecast and doubling down on it. "the new york times" describes this morning's developments this way, quote, by thursday morning it was clear that mr. trump had no intention of conceding that he was wrong about alabama. at a tweet at 6:39 a.m., the president accused of media of not giving the hurricane the attention it deserves. and they said the president'sco harm's way and the president is focused on covering up a mistake he made. this is part of a pattern of two trump phenomenons, lying and doubling down. "the washington post" is out with a piece chronicling other low points in the trump administration's war on truth t began on day one of his presidency when trump sent his press secretary out to defend his claims about the inaugural crowd size. >> this was the largest audience to ever witness an inaugu

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>> he worked for trump. the federal government -- >> and pompeo. >> ding ding ding. >> at the time it wasn't the same kind of information. given what we know about pompeo and the actions he didn't take. he should have raised an alarm the second he heard trump talking to zelensky about you trying to kneecap joe biden. >> i know just enough about the law to be dangerous, but i'm also from california, where the wildfire, the wind hitches and they take out entire towns. this wildfire seems to have shifted right over pompeo's head. >> one thing could be volker is signaling himself as available as a witness. once you resign, it's difficult to keep the president from trying to prevent him from testifies. i expect we'll be listening to the former special envoy from ukraine in the future, and the distinction between he and pompeo, at least now, is that his lawyers will be taking him to congress in an effort to cooperate. you know, congress has used a very smart strategy here with both pompeo and with giuliani. these

i the trump, watching trump, your theory first. why did he say alabama a state he will get in the next election probably, it could be close to the senate. he'll probably get it. >> i'm with jason, i think he made a mistake and has to stand by it. what should disturb us is there is a message sent to every civil servant in this government, you only say what we tell you to say even if it's a lie to the risk of your job, to those people, don't quit, make them fire you. make an issue out of it. tell the truth. >> easy for to you say, a good moral advice i got to tell you. my theory is trump wanted to argue that alabama was threatened by this storm but that he somehow saved it from the storm. that's what he wanted to do. trump is unbelievable. anyway, thank you david k. johnson. natasha, congratulation on that story about the errant air force platoon that decided to stop and make trump like them. anyway, jason johnson as always, coming up, trump is talking about a family political dynasty. remember the romanoffs, they are saying it. it w

elizabeth warren ahead of trump 44-42. cory booker ahead of trump 43-41. kamala harris ahead of trump 45-44. the poll did not include any other democratic candidates in one-on-one match-ups against donald trump in texas. joining our discussion now is jason johnson. he's the politics editor at theroot.com and professor of politics and media at morgan state university. and jennifer rubin is with us. she's an opinion writer at the "washington post." both are msnbc political analysts. and jennifer, these are bad numbers for donald trump. and that's before john bolton's memoirs are published. >> yes, it is. two things jumped out at me. one is what he was surviving on was his handling of the economy. and in both those polls he's down on that measure. the other thing that's interesting is i've been watching white women and white college-educated women, for the first time you see white non-college-educated women abandoning trump in droves. so i think if you're a republican looking at this mess you're thinking, oh boy, are we in trouble. and if you're a democratic

favorite -- president trump's favorite dictator abdel fattah el-sisi. >> trump and cc have permitted a close relationship. devoid of any kind of criticism of each other. dangerous, could be that it further embmboldens sisi to crackdown even further without even the kind of muted criticism that we heard from previous administrations. amy: we will speak to democracy now! correspondent sharif abdel kouddous. all that and more, coming up. welcome to democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. president trump faces the biggest political crisis of his career after the publication of bombshell complaints accusing the president of abusing his power for personal gain. in the nine page document, and i named whistleblower was been identified as a cia official, writes -- "the president of the united states is using the power of his office to solicit interference from a foreign country in the 2020 u.s. election." the complaint corroborates a rough transcript of a july 25th phone call -- released by the white house on wednesday -- showing that trump repeatedly pres

in donald trump's own words. collusion with a foreign government to help donald trump's reelection campaign by hurting a candidate running against donald trump. there's a lot of talk about biden's son, that biden stopped the prosecution, and a lot of people want to find out about that, so whatever you can do with the attorney general would be great. whatever you can do. that's what the president of the united states wanted in that conversation from the president of ukraine. whatever you can do to help the reelection campaign of donald trump. that is the donald trump, jr., meeting at trump tower with russians during the presidential campaign on steroids. >>> leading off our discussion tonight is former director of the white house situation room where he managed president obama's phone calls with other heads of state. he is also a former chief of staff to the director of the c.i.a. larry, thank you for coming back tonight. we have the transcript. you've seen the transcript. and i just want to get a basic verificati

trump is catering to mr.in who is dedicated to undermining ukrainian democracy and exception, but says "the washington post," but we are reliably told that the president has a second and more venal agenda. he is attempting to force the new leader of ukraine to intervene in the 2020 u.s. presidential election by launching an investigation of the leading democratic presidential candidate joe biden. what? mr. trump is not just soliciting ukraine's help with his presidential campaign, he is using u.s. military aid that country desperately needs in an attempt to extort it. the news tonight is bananas. we have known president trump is holding up the aid to ukraine. we have known that is dodgy, given how much of a favor that is to vladimir putin and russia and given that the president is contradicting the pentagon in insisting holding back the money, given that the trump administration hasn't said anything about the fact they are doing this, they hope no one will notice. it's been obvious that something dodgy and wo

barr -- trump needs william barr more than william barr needs trump? >> right. >> he's spending $30,000 out of his own pocket. of all of the expen at thditure the one i find questionable. >> mr. barr is a very bright person. he didn't take a long time hanging out there in this new role. he's one of the more recent cabinet members to figure out how it works and how to ingratiate. that's a chilling statement when we're talking about matters of literally life and death. i mean, who lives and who dies and who protects the prisons and how do executions work and his focus was not only in getting a holiday party planned and getting it leaked that he's spending the money that way. on a lighter note do you know how you can tell whether a continental breakfast is solid on the road? >> i do not, please tell me. >> my test. i love a free included continental is whether there's multiple types of juice. if i come in and it's only o.j., it's okay. if i see the grapefruit juice, this holiday inn, on the campaign trail. >> ari, breakfast was included at the dunebeg for

donald trump.le think you're coming for their cheeseburgers, you'll lose this election. but then there's this. a majority of democrats do seem to agree on one thing. a new npr/pbs/marist poll finds nearly 2/3 of democrats surveyed, 58%, say it's more important to have a nominee who can beat donald trump. 39% want a nominee who shares their views. we're so happy to have back with us tonight john heilemann, our national affairs analyst, co-author of "game change," co-author of "double down," co-host and co-creator of "the circus" on showtime. where do you come down on the rick wilson theory espoused by many others, if you legislate cheeseburgers, drinking straws, light bulbs, you're going to lose. >> yeah. i think those are all issues that create a target-rich environment for the trump campaign. and you can see it after this climate event the other night. you watched the way the trump campaign -- i was on the show with you. >> every night on fox news they're doing it. >> you saw what they put out as

and donald trump knows that.his is a hit job on the son, the last surviving son, his brother passed away. this is the last son. part of the reason why joe biden didn't run for president in 2016, because he wanted to take care after his family after he lost beau. this is an achilles hill of joe biden psychically. and donald trump is like where can i go to get the oppo to get at this guy's heart. >> because i have no conscience, i have no morals and i don't care about using the united states government and possibly foreign aid to carry out my campaign. >> correct. and if that's ukraine or if that's utah, donald trump is going to go wherever he needs to go and do whatever he needs to do, no matter how unethical, immoral, or illegal it is. that's what this story is about more than anything. >> what did you want to say about quid pro quo? >> is that i never liked to try to second guess or get under the skin of the reporting of excellent journalists like those at the "wall street journal" and those in other places. the

funds for trump's border wall.mp's wall will require over $18 billion in funding through 2020, far more than the administration has publicly disclosed. so how do they plan to make up for this new funding shortfall? if lawmakers refuse to allocate more funding, they plan to dip into the pentagon's construction budget for the second consecutive year to get another $3.6 billion. the post reports this was discussed last week by trump's son-in-law jared kushner. if the administration carries out the plan, the white house will have defied congress to divert a total of $7.2 billion in aid. the white house is proposing to double the funding cutting to u.s. military bases overseas and here in the u.s. but, hey, no one supports the military like donald trump. watch this space. if you have moderate to severe plaque psoriasis, every day can begin with flakes. it's a reminder of your struggles with psoriasis. but what if your psoriasis symptoms didn't follow you around? that's why there's ilumya. with just 2 doses, a majority o

trump's former lawyer and fixer michael cohen who did trump's bidding for a decade and is now spendingn us. trump associates and the republicans of the dangers of doing said dirty work. >> he doesn't give you questions. he doesn't give you orders. he speaks in a code. >> donald trump said i would like you to do us a favor though. >> my ambition and the intoxication of trump power had much to do with the bad decisions in part that i made. >> the quote meeting or phone call between the president and president zelensky would depend on whether he showed willingness to play ball. >> this is his country. >> i want to know who is the person that gave the whistleblower the information. because that is close to a spy. you know what we used to do in the old days when we were smart, right, with spies and treason. used to handle them a little differently. >> i can only warn people the more people it that follow mr. trump as i did blindly are going to suffer the same consequences that i'm suffering. >> joining me now, jonathan capehart, barbara mcquaid, author of how to catch a russian spy, glenn k

trump cannot win. on the last day i was with him, we had to get on a different plane that didn't have wi-fi because of the earlier nights incident. just as our plane was coming get into pennsylvania dipping into cell phone range, every single persons phone on the plane put up with the lord that james comey had sent a letter to congress reopening the investigation into hillary clinton's industry and i will tell you, it's indelible in my mind. i can see it today, the were not many of us on the plane, i reporters and four owe five secret service and the vice president in five or six of the staffer we're all sitting there clustered, and until you kid on christmas morning does not begin to describe the looks on the faces of the pence people, because for the first type in anti-camping there was a flicker of hope. however fleeting but a flicker of hope that oh, my goodness, can you believe our luck? we might actually win. and i will remember that until the day i die. >> it's my recollection of the day the "ac

the reluctant trump voters. is there a concern around the president that the reluctant trump voters are turned off by behavior like this? >> there is concern among the president's advisers in general about the path to 2020. i think they see a path. it involves winning all the states they won in 2016 or maybe they're very interested in minnesota right now as a place they can play offense. they see some ways around this. but there's real concern that this is not in the bag, that, yes, some of these reluctant trump voters who -- and you see this in the primary challengers he has. people like joe walsh who is a long shot candidate who is not going to be the republican nominee, but he was a trump supporter in 2016 because he hated clinton. and he says now i have seen him in office, and i've had a change of heart. this can't go on. and the idea for people like walsh is that this creates a permission structure for other people who voted for trump in 2016 to say, you know, it's not embarrassing to say he didn't -- i got

trump's sons don jr. and eric do foreign business and his daughter ivanka is getting chinese patents and saudi grants to put all of that out there. >> it is a family affair it seems like at the white house. >> but hey, let's focus on hunter biden for a moment. it was a wild weekend of weather across the country as some states deal with an early taste of winter while others were dealing with record heat. nbc news's kendis gibson has more. >> a powerful and historic storm hitting the northern rockies. it's snow in september across at least six states just one week after the end of summer. in montana a blizzard and a state of emergency, more than three feet of snow in some parts. it's piling up on trees weighing heavy on power lines above. the northern part of the state socked in, storm chaser aaron jayjack in glacier national park. >> you can see the wind is blowing quite hard here, lots of snow. we do have whiteout conditions here. >> reporter: nearby wind pushed snow drifts onto city sidewalks, treacherou

no one makes donald trump's problems get worse better than donald trump. so today when he was asked about john bolton, donald trump would not resist taking shots at john bolton, attacking john bolton. calling john bolton not smart. john bolton resisted responding to donald trump's provocation. well, john bolton didn't completely resist. he said some very important words. john bolton said i will have my say in due course. that was first reported as a text john bolton sent to "the washington post" and soon nbc news confirmed those exact words from john bolton today, i will have my say in due course. it would have been much better for donald trump if john bolton decided to have his say today and get it over with, but on this, at least, john bolton is much, much smarter than donald trump. john bolton is going to have his say. he is going to respond to the insults that donald trump threw at him today. but john bolton is going to control the timing and the form of his response to donald trump. john bolton has already written one book of memoirs of serving in a r

president trump himself.uld be like the president of the ireland deciding to sleep in princeton, new jersey while on an official visit to washington, d.c. princeton, new jersey is exactly the same distance from washington as the trump hotel is from dublin, about 180 miles. and it's not just ridiculous. at least one constitutional scholar believes that this is illegal. harvard constitutional law professors lawrence tribe tweeted, quote, getting pence and team to stay at the trump property on ireland's west coast and commute daily to and from the meetings on ireland's east coast, all to line trump's pockets, isn't just a waste of tax dollars, it violates the article ii domestic emoluments clause, the constitution says the president shall, at stated times, receive for his services, a compensation, which shall neither be increased forediminished during the period for which he shall have been elected, and she shall not receive within that period any other emolument from the united states or any of them. professor

that was a dejected president trump. we have seen him in much more sort of on his heels moments where he is fiery and fighting back, and punching back, and yes some of his words were doing that, but his overall tenure, how this president understands things on media and how things are playing. it seemed to ne a president who fully understood that he is in a world of hurt at the moment. >> dana, he did come across the president as rambling in his open statement and elsewhere and rather low energy. >> if he were watching somebody else give that, he would call them low energy trump. that's what he would do. i totally agree. he did seem maybe dejected, tired, it's exhausting, i think, being up tweeting to all hours of the night, in fact, never mind legitimately having a lot of very key meetings, including a very stressful meeting, again, just like many things in the trump world, you cannot write this if it were a script, with the guy who he was on the call with, this summer came out about, and having to dance around that, whi

trump's support is not going up. his base has stayed the same so part of what the party has to do, the democratic party is energize its voters. pelosi keeps using a sort of old political model. it's wonderful when she can do it in terms of keeping him from giving a state of the union address, but i actually think she is not in line with where the party is moving. >> so brittney is talking about energizing the voter, energizing the democratic base. but what about the argument about wanting to protect certain people that could help win this election come 2020, making certain they don't alienate certain voters come 2020. >> it's a good argument. first of all, the base is motivated. you can not find a democratic primary voter who is not super excited to go out and vote against donald trump. so i think her calculation is will impeachment help or hinder the effort to get him out of office? i suspect she would rather have him beaten at the ballot box than have an impeachment vote that succeeds in the house but fails in the

the democrats hate donald trump because donald trump stands up and fight back. for years the democrat is used to doing anything and say anything and have branded the republicanss as races all down through the years and they rather retire, lay down, rolled over and take it. because they know that most people that most democrats will not vote and go through history and find out the truth about the democrats. okay, and another thing. they tell tales about his children that working in the white house getting paid. they are not getting paid. donald trump to not take his pay, and the pay fsa he has to take him he donates that to charity. >> host: congressman, what do you think? >> guest: i like her attitude, but you know, the thing i will say with respect to this investigation and i think she alludedlu to that is they have called for so many investigations on the president. how many times can you cry wolf packs it just seems they built up so much hope among their base that the mueller report would be the silver bullet that would lead to impeachment, and when they came

this is trump addressing the general assembly. pres. trump: all nations have a duty to act.o responsible government should .ubsbsidize e iran's bloodlust as long as arends menacing behavior continues, sanctions will not be lifted. they will be tightened. amy:y: p president trurump alsld out at china and venezuela. for more, we go to santa fe, new mexico, where we're joined by vijay prashad, whose article on salon is headlined "world leaders gather at the u.n. in the face of war, climate catastrophe & global worker exploitation." he is the director of tricontinental institute for social research and chief editor of leftword books. also chief correspondent of globetrotter and author of "the poorer nations: a possible history of the global south", we thank you for being with us. can you respond to what now seems like ancient history, which was actually just yesterday morning president trump addressing the u.n. general assembly right before, a few hours before it was announced the house would begin formal impeachment proceedings against him? talk about his message. >> you're qui

the incursions of donald trump's friends in russia, trump withheld that aid. we don't know why.e also don't even really know what's fully in the whistleblower report. i think there's been great reporting related to this call. but maybe there's even more than this call. we just don't know how far this really goes. i think congress has to decide that it is going to issue the subpoenas and it is going to go to court and force those subpoenas, and it is going to get to the bottom of this because this is an abuse of power by the president that really ranks up there. i don't think it's mello dramatic to compare to watergate. after all, richard nixon didn't go and break into watergate himself. this is trump inviting foreign interveerns into our elections. >> color me cautiously optimistic, i guess, that the sort of landscape has shifted. i don't know that i see it yet. what do you see? >> it doesn't seem like the landscape has shifted. it should be shifting. i think this is a big kind of flag that congress needs to be looking at and acting on. look, the thing that i look at with this i

was donald trump directing rudy? i guess trump could pardon him.ut he doesn't have of the protections. just because he was playing a presidential envoy doesn't make him one. >> and that's why it's extremely important that the democrats who ask these questions do it very quickly and very pointedly. i think it's very smart that adam schiff will be at the forefront. presumely to some kind of outside counsel who gets to this. but the democrats haven't exactly been great about getting answers in these settings either. >> i've talked to former senior national security officials who say that the extraordinary turn of fortune for mike pompeo may end up being the most stunning sort of carnage. trump gave his inaugural address about human carnage. this might sweep up mike pompeo. >> rudy showing these texts whether they're legitimate or not, the fact of the matter is that he was getting access in ukraine that you wouldn't get if you were just some yahoo pretending to be speaking on behalf of the president. we had our own interview with richard engel earlier

trump.nce again, the president of the united states is in big trouble. >> nbc news special report. >> good afternoon, everyone. we're coming on the air in this busy news day with breaking news, announcement from house speaker nancy pelosi of a formal impeachment inquiry into president trump. >> today, i'm announcing the house of representatives moving forward with an official impeachment inquiry. the actions taken to date by the president have seriously violated the constitution. the president must be held accountable. no one is above the law. >> trevor: holy crap. ( cheers and applause ) after two years of avoiding it, trump may finally face articles of impeachment, which, believe me, he's not happy about. it's impeachment which trump haircuts plus articles which he hates even more. ( laughter ) yeah, if his mom caught him with a playboy magazine, he would be, i swear, i'm not reading the articles, just looking at the boobs. ( laughter ) and if you thought trump was unhinged before, i can't

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cnn had trump during the hurricane -- howie: we mentioned that earlier.is is absolutely preposterous. everybody should know that. the point about source, that's cardinal sin for journalists, how many prominent journalists in dc burned source to get somebody during obama administration fired from the job, i think the answer is zero. howie: quick comment for you. >> what was i don't understand the bounds of the story that the post ran about his summer? >> i was referring to burning a source -- howie: all right, let me do turnout by playing beto o'rourke who said that we are going to bleep but wasn't bleep live on state of the union. >> 301 mass shootings a year, no other country comes close so this is -- howie: keep dropping f-bombs, do the media contribute the notion this is a cool thing that gives them street cred. >> using the f-bomb is lame, it is, i spend hours a day trying to excise the f word from his have cabbulation, -- >> what's your blanking opinion on this. >> look, i think beto o'rourke, candidacy has turned into something like a laughing stock

i don't care what you think about trump. i don't care what anybody thinks about trump. the facts are that from day one he said there's not one scintilla of evidence come from day one, no one ever, no reporter, no politician, no policy organization, no legal outfit, no one ever delivered one scintilla of evidence. and yet, and we looked at this, my colleague published report, just under 20% of all news stories since tell trump was president have dealt with russia collusion. think about all the economic stories on unemployment, on taxes, spending, goes on and on, although stories on foreign policy, isis, russia, , china, north korea, iran. all the stories and social policy, all the stress of politics if the thousands of directions and get 20% of all news stories help with something that didn't exist. that's fake news. >> host: do think the mueller report with fake news? >> i think the whole investigation was fake news. and look at what bob mueller came up with in his report. he said there's nothing. is nothing there. the real question is, what in the world is going on wit

plus a trump slump. a new cnn poll revealing what could be a great concern to the president and his re-election hopes, and polls about to close in a crucial special election that has national implications. results expected to come in this hour. let's go "out front". >>> good evening. i'm erin burnett. out front tonight. it was personal. we are learning more this hour about the bitter breakup between trump and bolton. a source tells cnn that president turned on his now former national security adviser john bolton because he thought bolton made him look bad this week. bolton wanted to humiliate bolton in an exchange. there's bolton at the white house 8:44 a.m. this morning, work as usual taking a phone call outside and he then went in and led a meeting with top administration officials and then, boom, a tweet. the operative part of that tweet, quote, i informed john bolton last night that his services are no longer needed at the white house. well, that's not bolton's version. sources tell cnn bolton was li

and we know the trump administration and the trump transition all the way back to the trump campaign they have been scheming quite aggressively to try to undermine or even unilaterally reverse those sanctions. so you look at all the things the u.s. government did to try to push russia back after it invated this neighboring country, ukraine, trump has tried to undo them all. he's right now trying to undo the funding for military projects in europe. he's trying to undo putin getting kicked out of the g7. he has long been trying to undo the sanctions against putin and russia. and there's one other thing, there's a fourth thing that the u.s. did in response to putin invading ukraine and taking part of that crown tri for itself. i mentioned it last night. we didn't talk about it in detail. the fourth one of those things that the u.s. government did that trump is now apparently trying to undo is that after russia invaded ukraine and took part of that country and started waging this on going war there, this on going occupation effort in another part of ukraine the fourth thing the u.s. gove

trump against nadler is the contrast trump wants to drop. dohave no idea articles of impeachment if it would help trump, hurt trump or be neutral. my belief is we should not to impeachment for political reasons. not dold also not impeachment for political reasons. it should be based on facts. we need to look at the evidence and it should be our last option. but if we conclude the president of the united states halted political aide to a critical ally at a critical time and also had a conversation with a ukrainian leader to investigate a u.s. citizen for political purposes, that is a high crime. host: anthony, louisiana, independent, hello. caller: it is not working. what you are trying to tell us -- i used to vote democrat -- it is not working. you are trying to tell us that all of the stuff trump is saying , he was trying to get the people -- no, sir, we are not believing that. host: what do you believe? trump: i don't believe was doing the things they are trying to say he was doing. guest: you are entitled to your opinion. i am just going

while certainly this double standard existed in the supreme court jurisprudence before trump, the trump administration has exploded this power more than any other administration in a long time. there are precedents for this in the early 20th century and the 19th century, relatively few are precedents for this kind of large-scale exploitation of this what has happened in the trump administration. the second broad problem the trump administration has highlighted in both its trade and imitation policies is the issue of delegation of enormous power to the executive, enormous discretion in areas at least originally that were supposed to be primarily determined by the legislature. trump, for example in the area of trade, has started multiple trade wars with canada, with the european union, with mexico, with china, to some extent elsewhere as well. and he has done so on the basis of delegation to statutory authority, which in some cases give him almost a limited power to impose tariffs and other restraints on trade. for example, the restrictions on imports from canada and mexico and part of th

most of our focus is on donald trump and on preparing for donald trump. as we get closer into the general election, deeper into the primary, we will start thinking more about the comparison between the candidates that are on the ballot. right now, our focus is on, how do we make sure donald trump doesn't get to define this race on his terms? how do we make sure we are talking to general election voters while the primary is going on? once we get deeper in and we have two or three likely nominees instead of 20 candidates, we will talk more about those comparisons. juana: candidates are clearly trying to figure out whether it's more effective to respond to some of the things that the president says or does, whether it be comments about immigrants, his policies, what have you, and then talking about issues like the economy and health care. how would you advise a candidate trying to find that middle ground? what message resonates best with primary voters? guy: there will always be a balance. no presidential election is going to be around any one particular iss

news, trump supporters.e don't have the proof. down grading america. host: a lot of focus on weather or not to move forward -- here is a story about that pressure right now in the democratic caucus in the house. focusing again on the tweets we showed you from alexandria ocasio-cortez and comments by others trying to get democrats to move ahead with impeachment proceedings. at that story noting a rare sunday afternoon dear colleague letter nancy pelosi's -- sent to --ocrats and republicans turn over that whistleblower complaint. here is what nancy pelosi wrote in the letter. if the administration persists blocking this whistleblower disclosing congress, a serious breach of constitutional duties, they will be entering a grave new chapter of lawlessness which will take us into a whole new investigation. one text from one of our viewers -- republicans will reveal her own corruption, that is alicia out of oregon. before we leave that last call from milwaukee, wisconsin, bus is ine the c-span milwaukee, is constan

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mike pence took the meeting rather than donald trump. went to poland instead of donald trump. he's been intimately involved in everything that donald trump has done, and if not involved, he has i think a lot of people would say have been quite sycophantic towards donald trump and praised him no matter what he has done. would, in your view, vice president mike pence be equally culpable in whatever donald trump has done? and so if that is impeachable, what would you say about mike pence? should he remain in his office? >> yeah. i think that's a fair question. and i think we need to make sure that there is a deliberate investigation to bring forward all of the facts, make sure that members of congress are operating with the truth, and that that is shared with the american people. but your question also poses another one, this is, those around donald trump, do you want to go down with this ship? there is no limit on the number of people who can come forward to share information, who are eligible under the whistle-blower statute to share information and make sure that we preserve t

trump 2024.ction. >> well, maybe he expects to eryone assumes if trump loses in 2020, we're done with him. why do we think that? you know? >> bill kristol, thank you. steve kornacki, that's why they pay bill kristol the big bucks. steve, this broader question, and i know you never do opinion. but if you're looking for danger signs for the republican party in the american suburbs writ large, i know a guy like you could find them. >> it's right there. it's mecklenburg county. i say it's geographically tiny. it's right here. dan mccready, it's a 12 point win for dan mccready. all the votes are counted there. this is actually better than mccready did last year. he won it by 10 then. he wins it by 12 tonight. in this same slice of the district, trump won by three in 2016. so this is a densely populated area that trump was able to carry as a candidate. but as president twice now in a congressional election, it's gone double digits for the democrat. if you have that happening in mecklenburg county and y

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. >>> trump's official call. he talks about investigating joe biden and calls ukraine to ask him about investigating joe biden and his son. >>> tipping point. the new scandal triggers a seismic shift in the house democratic position on impeachment. now three house committees are threatening to subpoena secretary of state mike pompeo unless they get documents on the president's contacts with ukraine. >>> u.s. soldier charge. new details of an undercover fbi interpretation, and a serviceman is accused of sending bond-facing man. >>> beating trump soon? mr. trump insists south korea is set to feel spurn. we're watching the united nations where trump is scheduled to meet a counterpart this hour. i'm wolf blitzer here in the situation room. >>> we're following breaking news this hour, including president trump's controversial phone call with ukraine's president. mr. trump is now saying it would have been okay if he pressured the ukranian leader to investigate joe biden, although he continues to deny he did. he's now o

and the trump family and probably the trump wallet do you agree michel. i agree this is where united. we found it it's just it's just weird where you have someone who claims to be this close to the president is somehow an attorney and yet he goes on these television shows and gets everyone in more trouble every single time he goes on these controversies are up because of something he said but he's loyal to the president and we all know that donald wants loyalty more than anything else so that's why he can get away with it so do you think that he actually hurts donald trump or does it is this part of the tough long i think that it think that there is always going to be the 2 sides so for the left the people on the left they will take the rudy giuliani sound bites and they will be awful but for the diehard donald trump fans there to take the rudy giuliani soundbites and be like who are out of that some amazing so the question is what are the people middle thinking so what about bill weld and some of the other republicans who are challenging donald trump and

the trump folks don't say it, but it is trump himself. and lindsey graham to run to the tv to do his defense. >> i want to get your thoughts on the top democrat s who are starting to see a point of no return on impeachment. interestingly enough, there are democratic senators like doug jones of alabama, also reluctant to go down the road of impeachment. what could this mean for potential gridlock on capitol hill? >> right. the one takeaway here, this is a runaway freight train. we have folks in the house in favor of starting the inquiry. it is hard to see how it doesn't go to actual impeachment. this is going to consume the house for the foreseeable future. democrats are telling us that blows the legislative agenda out of the water, possibly moving forward on guns, prescription drugs, free trade. none of it will be happenings with the impeachment battle. others will say, look, it was an unrealistic expectation. nothing was going to happen before the election anyway. cool your jets. >> what are you watching the most this week? there is a lo

in on the trump white house. all of the walls are closing in at this point the walls are closing in fast. as you remember the democrats it was mostly dominated by a debunked russian collusion probe our senior correspondent. being taking a closer look at the moves against president. if you're a democrat the hardcore liberal type you knew in your heart the trump would be brought down the only question was how long it would take just needed a reason and come on there were plenty no people put their money on the trump russia collusion story treason collusion between the trunk team and the russians and trump knew about it that would truly be impeachable it's miss prison of treason and so far his response has been exploding and unfortunately proved entirely fabricated but to hell with it obstruction of justice federal seen in the united states that ought to do it to president trump trying to block the f.b.i.'s rush investigation commit an impeachable offense are we getting closer and closer to the possibility of yet an